Reddit mentions of Hikari Organic Miso Paste, White, 17.6 oz

LOL @ overeager mod. I was confused - Saturday? Not quite but sure let's start the weekend :)

My favorite recent discovery is miso paste. A teaspoon or two stirred in in a mug of hot water makes an instant cup of savory, salty umami goodness. Actual miso soup calls for adding tofu, greens, onions and maybe other things, but the broth is so easy to prepare from miso paste and it is such a solid hit of numminess, I really love it. More about miso's many health benefits here. Oh- calorie-wise, I buy Hikari white miso paste from Kroger and it's 25 cals, 1g protein, 1g fat, 3 carbs per serving. Miso paste is a pretty versatile cooking ingredient for other things too. My husband's been having fun -- miso glazed steak, miso asparagus, miso salad dressings, good stuff.

I've read a bunch about how home-cooked bone broth is really good for you, as it contains some nutrients from bone marrow that are supposedly not possible to get from processed/store-bought soups or bouillons. I dunno, but my husband regularly cooks stock from leftover bones and it's really, really good. We feed our pets fresh meat so we tend to have a lot of stock-makings. Really not sure of the calories there, but how bad could broth be? :)

He also cooks with shirataki. A lot of people find shirataki odd but it really shines in broth-based soups.

Well the toppings are cooked as I said above in a skillet with vegetable oil and for the broth, you just boil 1 cup of water and dissolve some miso in it. Redi miso for stronger flavor, white miso for something more mild. You can also put pretty much any toppings you want and any broth you want. Make the toppings and noodles first and the broth last, though.

I found this recipe as well which looks pretty good but it's a little more involved.

Good for you! Many things call for creativity with ET being one of them. (I also tend to mix soups together from cans or when at a soup bar, and used to drive my son crazy when visiting his dorm cafeteria by mixing together various dishes and single ingredients to make fairly different ones...lol).

And yeah, there's a big difference between brands of all the decaf drinks.

I always disliked the decaf coffee served in most places, but I had drunk good decaf at night when I didn't want caffeine in one restaurant we used to go to and in one other place at one point, so I knew it could be done.
Part of the diff is the particular species/variety/cultivar of coffee plant being used or the blend a company has created, part is the method of decaffeination and roasting/etc, and part is how it's brewed at home (water temp, water ratio, etc), but there are probably more variables as well. I usually add 1/2 & 1/2 to my coffee too, often froth the top, and sometimes even flavor it but usually not--fun to play around with though. I've also found that for coffees I'd eventually prefer, I'd grown to like them more and more after the very beginning.

If you're not doing low carb, and/or can tolerate any of the alternative sweeteners or are just okay with consuming carbs/sugar/honey/etc, other drinks can be good too with some kind of added sweetener usually.
Some possibilities are homemade chai made with decaf black tea, all kinds of flavored green teas (plus regular jasmine tea is the only tea I can drink without sweetener), hot cider (with or without added cinnamon, etc), hot lemonade, and cold flavored carbonated water (seltzer, sparkling or fizzy water--not club soda or tonic water) in moderation (I used to make flavored ones at home by adding something like a bit of oj or other fruit concentrate into a glass of seltzer; soft drinks are just carbonated water + flavoring + sweetener).
I also like to drink hot chicken broth (add salt), but more often a hot miso drink (miso paste + bit of granulated hondashi/dashi + a small piece of kombu/dried kelp; I buy the last 2 ingredients at Safeway but white miso paste from Amazon tho may also try the stronger red miso: https://www.amazon.com/Hikari-Organic-Miso-Paste-White/dp/B00IBNZAEE ...all of those have very long shelf life so can just keep around for anytime). The broth and miso drink are also low carb, and many people have reported improvements in various diseases/conditions with a low carb diet, including ET.

If you're in the US: http://www.amazon.com/Hikari-ORGANIC-White-Miso-Paste/dp/B00IBNZAEE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416170278&sr=8-2&keywords=white+miso